August Post

So since it's been summer and I've been away from the blog-o-sphere, I figure I should give you at least one post for the month of August.

Sad to say, but when I've been at home I've been really bad at getting on to read or edit blogs. I don't have a good reason except for the little parasite we've been growing. I've spent countless precious hours napping, and it was heavenly. I'm back to work now and don't know what I'll do without my naps!

Update on the Parasite!

It's a BOY!

We're going to have our million dollar family, or our Nuclear family as James likes to say.

That being said, Little Miss' Big Girl Room is slowly coming together (we have a bedspread and sheets, my grandmother is refinishing some of my old furniture, and I think we have paint colours picked out!), and I've thought of a new design for the nursery. I wasn't going to change much in the nursery, but I came across some really cute Monkey designs and decor and I was sold. Even James agrees that the brown will look great with the yellow, so now I'm looking for great peel and stick wall decals, accessories etc, so if you know of anything, let me know!

I will get to posting pictures from our vacations soon. It was a great summer, complete with a trip to the cottage and a week in New Hampshire. We had fun, but am sad to say it is now over!

Little Miss is excited to have a little brother, and I'm excited because she is getting close to being potty trained! Still have accidents, but we're getting there! Every trip to the potty is a small victory, celebrated in stickers and cookies!

Hope your summer has been fabulous, and I'll be sure to share more of mine soon enough!

Big News!

So I normally don't have a decent excuse for not blogging in what feels like forever... but this time I do!

I've been tired.

I've been napping in the afternoons.

I'm on summer vacation..

I'm chasing a two year old around most days.

and.....

I'm Pregnant!

So forgive me (us) for the lack of bloggy-ness lately. I hope that we'll get on top of the blog soon enough again!

Bad Blogger

I know. I've been a bad blogger. I have no excuse.

Last week I was off for two day for Pink Eye. It's all cleared up now. I should have had time then.

We get woken up everyday between 5am and 6am. Usually much closer to 5am than we'd both like. It might be time to buy black out curtains.

Work is drawing to an end. Woo Hoo. Unfortunately, that means all the kids are high strung as they are on a FIELD TRIP in the second to last week of school. CRAZY!

That, coupled with the early mornings, makes for a very tired Mommy, (and Daddy too of course).

Have I mentioned that we're in the Defiant Two's now? No one told me about this stage? She can talk all she wants but her favourite word still seem to be "no" with a little grunt added after for effect.

I'll try to be better soon.
Summer is coming.
Maybe I'll have more time.
Or will take more pictures.

I will try to post more often.
No promises.
But I'll try!

Forgetful me...

I completely forgot to grab the memory card this morning so that I could upload some awesome pictures from this weekend's birthday party. Sigh... my brain is mush these days. I think it might have something to do with the fact that I will NEVER get used to being woken up before 6am. Yesterday we were granted sleep until 6am and it was wonderful. I felt rested and great all day! Today, 3:33am, then 5:20am. I hate complaining, but she used to be such an awesome sleeper...

Any thoughts on how to Black Out her windows in the hopes she might sleep longer?

Funny Stories

Two funny munchkin stories from last night... well funny to me at least.

So James puts the munchkin down for bed almost every night. He asked me if I wanted to read her stories last night, but my tummy was still all rumbly so let him go ahead with it. About 10 minutes or so later he comes downstairs and we hear quiet. A few minutes later I hear a few sounds over the monitor, but figure she is just chatting with herself. A few minutes later she is calling/crying for daddy.

Off goes James in a slighty perturbed mood, only to get upstairs to have her say "Daddy, somefing in my bed".  Next thing I hear is slapping sounds across the monitor! I can only wonder what is going on up there. "More Daddy" then more slapping sounds!Turns out there were mosquitos in her room, buzzing in her ears and driving her mad (they drive me mad too!)

James comes down a few minutes later looking all victorious and giggling a bit. His first Heroic Daddy Deed complete. Soon it will be "somefing" under the bed, but for now, Daddy is the Mosquito Hero!

Fast forward about 6 hours. We hear cries at 3am that don't subside. Typically she cries out and settles herself back to sleep no problem. James has always been the best one to settle her back down in the night, so off he goes, only to have her want her blanket back on! Remember when I wrote the big Blanket issue? Well for the first time ever, she woke up as she wanted her blanket on her! Hooray!!

No to teach her to just kick off the blanket instead of toss it out of bed, so she can get it back when she wakes up in the middle of the night!!

Sickie

So it was my turn to be sick. Went to bed with a sour tummy and it all went south from there.... it's soooo hot that I only ventured outside to pick the little one up from daycare, then put our swimsuits on and sat in the kiddy pool with cold tap water for an hour. She was entertained and it was relaxing for me.

Still not feeling perfect, but should be able to venture to work tomorrow, seeing as it's an office day and I don't have to teach in the heat until Thursday afternoon.

Will try to post more tomorrow....

Blanket

I have a child who doesn't like blankets, or anything for that matter, in her bed. In the past week, we have finally convinced the stubborn two year old that blankets are for big girls, and maybe she should try it out. Her feet will be warm in the morning at least.

Night one she woke up crying and screaming saying she didn't want it. We took it off.

Night two went well. She woke in the morning with the blanket still around her. Same with a few naps.

We've told her that she can take it off anytime she wants, she doesn't have to keep it on.

Last night, 3:44am to be exact. I hear her cry. I run to the door way to hear her say "me no want that" and then it got quiet again. Off to bed I went.

This morning, like other mornings, the blanket was in a heap on the floor. Funny, yes. Annoying, sometimes. Adorable, absolutely! Baby steps with my stubborn two year old. But I'll take it for the cuteness factor!